Second, even if the two laws were exactly the same, there are major cultural and industrydifferences between employers in Massachusetts and many other states that should prevent deep parallels from being drawn.
There are a number of key differences between the industry's plan for press regulation for England and Wales and that agreed by politicians and campaigners.
There are fundamental differences between the aviation industry and the practice of medicine that make it unsafe to draw too close an analogy between the two.
For the good of the production, industry insiders speculate the pair may have put their differences aside and sat down for a bit of political strategizing in their mutual best interest.
But given these honest and substantial differences between the parties about the need to regulate the insurance industry and the need to help millions of middle-class families get insurance, I don't see how another year of negotiations would help.
Each industry model in China presents its own set of challenges to foreign companies, and foreign companies must take these differences into account when developing their strategies.